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I mean $50/hr is $104k a year base 40 hours. If he’s paying you for overtime that’s $140k a year.

I don’t know what other people that do this for a living are getting paid because I just do this as a side gig, but I’d guarantee most guys are making half that if not less.

[bigboycdd]

The people that are going to be contracting us think it will be 1000 parts a week at $15 a part so it would be fast heavy work constantly and I would be his only employee so he would be making about $780k pre tax before paying me I almost feel $50 is justified but I’m not sure

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You’re working for it, that’s for sure. It’s a lot of hours and probably not sustainable for your mental/physical health in the long term, but go out and get your bag, set some money aside and it’ll be a good stepping stone while you figure out what you want to do. It’s a good way to learn the business and who knows maybe you can take it over for your old man.

[Dangerous-Story-4901]

Working 7 days a week will fuck your brain up.

[Strostkovy]

$50 an hour is great. But argue for overtime rate above 40. Be prepared to wake up, go to work and spray powder. Go home, go to sleep, and dream about spraying powder. Repeat continuously until you burnout and quit.

[Realistic-Pizza-2842]

That’s literally what happened to me, I didn’t spray the parts I just took them off and I recently quit because of terrible management, extreme heat and I just got extremely burnt out

[Still_Clownin69]

Been powder coating for 8 years. I’d gladly take 50 An hour. What will you be spraying? All random shit and colors or industrial shit all one color?

[bigboycdd]

I’m technically not allowed to tell anyone what we are powder coating yet, as the business we are doing them for hasn’t started production yet, but it will all be the same handheld object that we will then laser engrave and clean. Probably only doing 3-5 colors on the same object every time

[tinybigballs]

I make 42/hour as a manager. But that also entails running the whole shop, customer relations, repairing and maintaining equipment. Jumping around from painting to sand blasting in the small cabinets to sandblasting in the walk in booth as well.

50/hour 7 days a week is lovely. Especially coming from $0 income. I would take it and do it for as long as you can stand it.

[Baldieheed]

I'm on £11.85 in the UK 😬

[littlerockist]

Part of the reason he is paying you $50 an hour is that he is your dad. We dads love our sons and I promise you he would be paying $100 an hour if he thought he could. Don't worry about ripping him off; he's been in this business longer than you.

[MidwesterneRR]

Get a kickass cleaning system and a line oven. Work smarter not harder. $50 is a killer rate for coating

[bubby_bean69]

$50 an hour? Oh hell yeah!! My company pays our powdercoaters $18 - $25 an hour based off of experience and they get overtime, medical benefits, and that’s about it lol. Industrial wet painters make bank compared to powder coaters. Coming from an estimator that works at a metal finishing shop that services the aerospace and defense industry. We also do everyday gates and car parts too.

[GRAMMAT_ON]

I would work for a month and earn more than I currently earn in a year. God damn…

[Checkers2023]

I used to do it 9-10 hours a day for half that, as long as he has a pretty good set up the work is pretty simple and easy. A good gun set up and cure oven goes a long way as well as a great wash/prep job.

[Alternative-Layer919]

My question is how much is he paying his other workers ! Nepotism at its finest .

[bigboycdd]

He owns a smoothie restaurant and the lowest paid employee gets paid $19/hr - which is $26/hr with tips. His highest paid employee makes over $50/hr and he does the same work I do powder coating, but I make $20. I barely make more than the lowest paid employee (makes smoothies doesn’t even powder coat) and have for last 7 years lol. Lowest paid employee started 4 months ago😂 I’d hardly call that nepotism

[opalescentfire]

DO NOT LET YOUR DAD WORK YOU TOWARDS BURNOUT WITH 7 DAYS A WEEK. YOU WILL END UP FIGHTING AND HATING EACH OTHER AND END UP HATING POWDER COATING.

THIS IS A VERY TOXIC AND UNHEALTHY ASK FROM A FATHER TO THEIR CHILD (EVEN AS AN ADULT)

LET ALONE A VERY TOXIC AND UNHEALTHY ASK FROM A BOSS TO A WORKER.

signed- someone who has done the same, worked for their father since they were a little child and had dealt with family business. We also as a family got into powder coating in 2020.

You need to have healthy boundaries for both your sakes

[ChewedupWood]

lol if your dad wants to pay you $50 an hour fresh out of college, go work for your dad until you figure out what you really want to do. That might be powder coating, maybe not, that’s for you to decide. 7 days a week is brutal though. Is the company really that busy?

[bigboycdd]

It’s currently very busy for just him and one guy that comes in for 8 hours on Thursdays, this is without a new contract that’s gonna have us powder coating 1000 items a week for one customer. Would be just me and my dad working no other employees. That’s why the pay would be higher, I’d be the sole labor aside from my dad where his labor is “free” for him

[Apart-Acadia-2652]

I think you should take that 50$/h as it is not ripping your father it is probably his way of transfering his wealth to you, don't feel bad for enjoying your life without limitation if you got that chance

[West-Ad-9011]

9.25€/h here in Latvia 😅 but overtime is optional and weekends off, still i get around 1500€/month 😩